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Campos Coffee in Civic? Or just some decent decaff?

Does anyone know where I can get a cup of Campos Coffee in Civic? We have a love affair, and I haven’t had a good cup of joe in a very long time.

Or perhaps you can suggest somewhere this pregnant lady can get a decent decaff in this town. Harvest didn’t do it for me, and the coffee shop downstairs from my work gave me caffeinated coffee instead of decaff…

And while you are asleep on my couch, please excuse me if your breasts need adjusting.

Steve Martin used to be funny. What happened?

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I assume that you provide that as an example of how he is no longer funny.

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid is a fantastic movie, one of his earlier works. Like Monty Python quotes, they often aren’t funny read in isolation.

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Sexual assault needs a context to be funny. I see.

Benny Hill? Any number of other comedies. In fact, I’d be surprised if something similar wasn’t common in movies and TV shows still. In Californication the other night the Tim MInchin rock star character slipped his wife a Stilnox (it’s called Ambien in the USA), though admittedly it was so he could have sex with someone else not with her. Still not very kosher.

Comedy will never be PC. I can make Irish jokes, you can’t. Woody Allen can make Jewish jokes, I can’t. Bill Cosby can make black (African American) jokes, Woody and I can’t.

Remember Love Thy Neighbour? That was considered “comedy” back in the whenever-it-was. Just appalling now. It’s never fair to judge any era by current standards, lowbrow humour doubly so.
Never a question of right or wrong, of course … merely what contemporary society would permit.

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Actually, I’ve heard Channel Seven will be making a revival of Love Thy Neighbour. Cory Bernardi will be playing Eddie Booth and the couple from Trinidad will be replaced by a gay couple.